Attorney General Says "Drop Gay-Rights Protections"
Virginia’s attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli II, a Republican who took office in January, wrote in a letter to the colleges that only the state’s General Assembly can give legal protections to gay state employees.
Therefore, Virginia's public colleges and universities with policies that ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation should revoke such policies because they lack the legal authority to name gay state employees as a protected class. [source]
Therefore, Virginia's public colleges and universities with policies that ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation should revoke such policies because they lack the legal authority to name gay state employees as a protected class. [source]
"It is my advice that the law and public policy of the Commonwealth of Virginia prohibit a college or university from including 'sexual orientation,' 'gender identity,' 'gender expression,' or like classification as a protected class within its non-discrimination policy absent specific authorization from the General Assembly." -Ken Cuccinelli II, Letter to the General Assembly
I mean, who wants to work with a gay person? They certainly do not want "gays" in the military. Maybe they should fire all the "gays" and take away their right to work. When that is accomplished, they will go after the the elderly and then the people with disabilities.
Do you see where this is going if we don't stand together to stop it? It may be too late anyway.
Do you see where this is going if we don't stand together to stop it? It may be too late anyway.
As an out gay man who just moved here from California, I’m horrified about what’s going on here in Virginia.
The illusion to arise from here, lies in the states own slogan; Virginia is for Lovers.
Whatever happened to the truth in advertising? The fact is, lots of what lovers do are felonious in Virginia. It’s even illegal to live together if you’re not married. These laws are enforced selectively and arbitrarily.
They oppress heterosexuals, gays and everyone in between.
Whatever happened to the truth in advertising? The fact is, lots of what lovers do are felonious in Virginia. It’s even illegal to live together if you’re not married. These laws are enforced selectively and arbitrarily.
They oppress heterosexuals, gays and everyone in between.
"Do you know the difference between a liberal and a conservative in this divided state of America? A liberal – allows others to disagree with their views while a conservative – declares anyone who disagrees with their views to be subhuman and not worthy of the most basic human dignity."
Those of you who want the gays, liberals and everyone else to disappear; Be careful what you wish for. There may come a time when enough of us finally wash our hands of this pathetic illusion of a democracy and flee to countries who actually consider us to be human beings. Where would you be then?
Remember San Francisco, when all the immigrants went on strike for one day? They practically shut down the restaurant industry in the city itself.
Is Virginia really for Lovers??
Remember San Francisco, when all the immigrants went on strike for one day? They practically shut down the restaurant industry in the city itself.
Is Virginia really for Lovers??
Virginia isn't for lovers and desperately needs a new state slogan. How about Virginia is for Haters. In 1969, a Richmond ad agency rolled out a new and exciting catchphrase for the Commonwealth:
Virginia is for Lovers.
It was young. It was sexy. It was provocative. It was now.
Forty-one years later ... not so much. In fact, today it's not even relevant. Or accurate. A typical Virginian likely couldn't even tell you what it means.
The official state tourism Web site explains: Whether you're a "long-time admirer" or on your "first rendezvous ... you'll surely enjoy seeing first-hand all the ways love lives in Virginia."
Beaches, night life, water parks, theme parks, mountains, rivers, "hands-on historical fun" – what the copy writers intended, of course, was if you love such things, then Virginia's the place for you. Maybe they also envisioned actual lovers strolling hand in hand, soaking it all in. If so, those lovers would have been young, attractive and white.
Apparently the state slogan has been retired and resurrected a few times over the decades, but it just won't die.
I wish it would.
We must drive a stake through its sad, withered heart once and for all, because all this slogan gets us now from our sister states is derision and hoots of hypocrisy. Virginia's failure to live up to it's own catchphrase is so complete, the only way to save it is by milking the irony, and closing it with not one question mark, but two:
"Virginia is for Lovers??"
Perhaps back in the day when young rebels gathered for a three-day rock concert in muddy Woodstock, N.Y., when Coke was the real thing, when Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch and Oliver Barrett IV believed love means never having to say you're sorry, love lived in the commonwealth.
Just imagine if a gay supervisor in Virginia could immediately fire all of the straight people under him or her for having the wrong orientation. Perhaps a stunt like that would bring people to their senses. Would they remove the protection if it were straight folks?
Kinda like when Texas tried to ban homosexual marriage and inadvertently outlawed all marriages.
Once you arise from the illusion, you begain to see that Bigotry is alive and well in the state of Virginia. I assume the issue will end up in the VA Supreme Court. Until then, any gay state employee who wants to file a discrimination grievance can go with ‘hostile work environment’ or something instead. Maybe religious discrimination’, because it seems like only conservative Christians (and I bet not even the majority of them anymore) even WANT to discriminate against gays.
Shame on Virginians - you seem to be stuck in the fifties.
You can help remove what Thomas Jefferson called the “dead hand of the past," by writing to the leaders of the state legislature, the General Assembly, and tell them Virginia is not for lovers. Let them know you won’t visit Virginia until it truly is for lovers.
In the meantime…..Boycott the Hate State.
Virginia in a State of Fear
Today, Virginia is definitely for mixing guns and booze. It's for bashing women who choose legal abortion. For offshore drilling and dirty coal. For telling gay employees at public universities they can be legally discriminated against. Cluelessly urging black Virginians to help celebrate their own slave history. Picking gratuitous fights with the federal government because we don't believe the planet is really hurting, or our people deserve better health care. Believing our president is a foreign-born Muslim, and fixing our deepest fears.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most.
We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant.'
Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened when you feel you must decend so that people won't feel insecure around you.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Good night, good morning, and good afternoon... whichever is relevant depending on where in the world you are right now.
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Well, come on down to NC, where we have improved a little after Jesse Helms was gone. At that time we had bumper stickers that read "Hate is not a family value" Our urban areas seem to be getting a little more tolerant. I never did get that "Virginia is for lovers" slogan; it never made any sense. Sorry to hear about your attorney general.
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